Field Recording, Autoethnography, and the Entanglements of the Heard

An audio paper that examines the practice of field recording and composing with field recording archives through presenting and considering an auto-ethnographic sonic arts research-creation practice. The paper presents simultaneous aural “streams of consciousness” that investigate both the proprioceptive nature of listening (and recording) as well as the dreaming research-creation mode of uncovering/speculating mythologies.

The actions of knowledge construction and sharing through acts of sonic interventions with extant audio material, using lived experience (and its inevitable gaps) as a springboard for imagining new forms of cultural transmission is a mode of research creation that embodies entanglements with a wide range of methodologies without being constrained by conventional definitions of what constitutes “acceptable” forms traditional research, and will find resonance with a wide range of research fields.